More on “Windows Genuine Advantage”
After I wrote the preceding entry, I came across this article in the Gripelog. Among other things Ed Foster notes
Back when Microsoft first rolled out what was then the “voluntary” Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program, I observed that this was already getting to be an old story with Microsoft. As with product activation, adding yet more anti-piracy locks on Windows would predictably do little to stop the real software pirates but figured to cause problems for some honest customers down the road. Sure enough, the result of forcing WGA on customers who want Windows updates has been a building crescendo of complaints on the Gripe Line — and elsewhere — about authentic copies of Microsoft’s validation tool identifying authentic copies of XP as non-genuine.
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